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Spokane mayor reviews first year, highlights housing moves, public safety hires and balanced budget
Summary
The mayor of Spokane used a year‑in‑office address to review initiatives on public safety, homelessness, affordable housing, transportation and a budget plan intended to close a near $50 million deficit over two years.
The mayor of Spokane reviewed a year of administration priorities Friday, saying the office focused on public safety leadership, homelessness interventions, affordable housing investments, transportation planning and restoring the city budget to balance.
The address outlined why those items mattered locally and listed concrete steps taken over the past year, including senior hires in public safety, voter approval of a community safety sales tax and programs to move people from encampments into temporary and permanent housing.
Among the administration actions the mayor described were hiring Kevin Hall as chief of the Spokane Police Department and Julie Ober as chief of the Spokane Fire Department after a publicly engaged search for community-safety…
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